Bre Pettis Quotes
We raised $10 million in 2011. Our rule was, we wouldn't accept money from anybody we didn't want to have dinner with.
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We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.
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Every time I watch a Clint Eastwood film, I'm in touch with my feminine side, I've developed a searing man-crush on Clint Eastwood.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
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I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
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'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.
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Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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When people say, 'You're perceived as a sex symbol,' I love the idea of that because it's so absurd.
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I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.
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Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.
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Have you murdered anyone in the last day, week, month, year, decade? Probably not. Then don't worry about it. Give yourself a break. You're probably a really fine person.
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I've always been more interested in organisms that can move on their own than in stationary plants. But when I canoe or hike along the edge of lakes or oceans and see trees that seem to be growing out of rock faces, I am blown away. How do they do it?
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We raised $10 million in 2011. Our rule was, we wouldn't accept money from anybody we didn't want to have dinner with.
